President Obama Suggests Romney Wants to Take U.S. to War Over Iran

[JDPriestly]

3. I've been gradually reading the book, A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchmann. (It's a long, long book

and great to read). She describes knights in the 14th century still deluding themselves into thinking they were living in the age of chivalry. They ventured into all kinds of situations in which they were doomed to failure or chimeric success. The outcome was the formation and strengthening of nation states and eventually disciplined armies and diplomacy -- quite the opposite of a bunch of disorganized knights each pursuing his own chivalric ideal.

The would-be heroes in the Republican Party remind me of those knights. They are imitating some heroes they read about in books. But the books are describing the world of the past, a world that no longer exists. What fools!

We cannot afford another Republican administration and its foolish wars.